"Spontaneous" human combustion always involves someone blacked out from alcohol/drugs and a cigarette and there is nothing spontaneous about it. As mentioned, people will in fact go up like torches (you do know you're carrying around pounds of cooking oil with you don't you?) and can then burn out quickly leaving little around them damaged.

vossiewulf:Authorities say the man had a history of heavy drinking and smoking.

"Spontaneous" human combustion always involves someone blacked out from alcohol/drugs and a cigarette and there is nothing spontaneous about it. As mentioned, people will in fact go up like torches (you do know you're carrying around pounds of cooking oil with you don't you?) and can then burn out quickly leaving little around them damaged.

Yogimus:vossiewulf: Authorities say the man had a history of heavy drinking and smoking.

"Spontaneous" human combustion always involves someone blacked out from alcohol/drugs and a cigarette and there is nothing spontaneous about it. As mentioned, people will in fact go up like torches (you do know you're carrying around pounds of cooking oil with you don't you?) and can then burn out quickly leaving little around them damaged.

LavenderWolf:Yogimus: vossiewulf: Authorities say the man had a history of heavy drinking and smoking.

"Spontaneous" human combustion always involves someone blacked out from alcohol/drugs and a cigarette and there is nothing spontaneous about it. As mentioned, people will in fact go up like torches (you do know you're carrying around pounds of cooking oil with you don't you?) and can then burn out quickly leaving little around them damaged.

Funniest thing I ever saw on an episode of COPS was some guy trying to pretend he didn't know how his girlfriend got shot in the leg. Southern cop: "Yeah, I guess she was just walkin' down the street and her leg exploded. Spontaneous human combustion, it happens like that sometimes." Difference was, THAT Southern cop was being sarcastic.

The photo suggests to me that this is a 'yes'. The hand sanitizer her t-shirt came in contact with appears to have contributed. Volatile fuel + extra oxygen + ignition source (static electricity would do it at this point) = fire.

The photo suggests to me that this is a 'yes'. The hand sanitizer her t-shirt came in contact with appears to have contributed. Volatile fuel + extra oxygen + ignition source (static electricity would do it at this point) = fire.

saw an excellent televised documentary from Europe on the subject. aside from investigating a few cases of alleged self-combustion leading to deaths they also interviewed two different families where one of them ignited (others were present to witness) but they were put out. the filmmakers didn't sensationalize, they tried to balance the bizarre with interviews of scientists and such, to reach common sense conclusions. good show.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom:Despite being 73% water, humans are highly flammable. A strong bowel movement, old, sharp bones rubbing together, or even metal fillings in the teeth can cause a spark, and that's all it takes.

I saw a tv program once which investigated this. What they found was that every case of "spontaneous human combustion" involved a fat drunk person who was smoking and who passed out. What happens is, the cigarette catches their clothes or bedding on fire, and then the fire starts burning them, and their body fat starts burning like a candle.

redheededstepchild:Weirdnessn abounds. There were two suspisous suicides in that area in the last few months. One girl "killed herself" tied to a chair. Or at least the rumor mill is getting morbid.

If I were to ever off myself, without just taking the fun way out of a plane and ditching the parachute, I'd make it look like murder.

Hot air balloon held in teeth while you handcuff yourself behind your back to a chair, hot air balloon rising triggers a rigged pistol to fire, then carries the whole rig thousands of feet up, and away.

Voila, suicide by gunshot to the back of the head while handcuffed to a chair. Doing it tied would just present another difficulty level...

LavenderWolf:redheededstepchild: Weirdnessn abounds. There were two suspisous suicides in that area in the last few months. One girl "killed herself" tied to a chair. Or at least the rumor mill is getting morbid.

If I were to ever off myself, without just taking the fun way out of a plane and ditching the parachute, I'd make it look like murder.

Hot air balloon held in teeth while you handcuff yourself behind your back to a chair, hot air balloon rising triggers a rigged pistol to fire, then carries the whole rig thousands of feet up, and away.

Voila, suicide by gunshot to the back of the head while handcuffed to a chair. Doing it tied would just present another difficulty level...

LavenderWolf:LavenderWolf: redheededstepchild: Weirdnessn abounds. There were two suspisous suicides in that area in the last few months. One girl "killed herself" tied to a chair. Or at least the rumor mill is getting morbid.

If I were to ever off myself, without just taking the fun way out of a plane and ditching the parachute, I'd make it look like murder.

Hot air balloon held in teeth while you handcuff yourself behind your back to a chair, hot air balloon rising triggers a rigged pistol to fire, then carries the whole rig thousands of feet up, and away.

Voila, suicide by gunshot to the back of the head while handcuffed to a chair. Doing it tied would just present another difficulty level...

Teriaki:LavenderWolf: LavenderWolf: redheededstepchild: Weirdnessn abounds. There were two suspisous suicides in that area in the last few months. One girl "killed herself" tied to a chair. Or at least the rumor mill is getting morbid.

If I were to ever off myself, without just taking the fun way out of a plane and ditching the parachute, I'd make it look like murder.

Hot air balloon held in teeth while you handcuff yourself behind your back to a chair, hot air balloon rising triggers a rigged pistol to fire, then carries the whole rig thousands of feet up, and away.

Voila, suicide by gunshot to the back of the head while handcuffed to a chair. Doing it tied would just present another difficulty level...

LavenderWolf:LavenderWolf: redheededstepchild: Weirdnessn abounds. There were two suspisous suicides in that area in the last few months. One girl "killed herself" tied to a chair. Or at least the rumor mill is getting morbid.

If I were to ever off myself, without just taking the fun way out of a plane and ditching the parachute, I'd make it look like murder.

Hot air balloon held in teeth while you handcuff yourself behind your back to a chair, hot air balloon rising triggers a rigged pistol to fire, then carries the whole rig thousands of feet up, and away.

Voila, suicide by gunshot to the back of the head while handcuffed to a chair. Doing it tied would just present another difficulty level...

Err, that should be helium balloon. I'm farking tired.

Forensic investigators check for such shenanigans but unironically cool story bro./I'm more of a "live to see your enemies driven before you" sort of fellow, suicide only becomes an option to me if I'd feel it's inevitable my enemies will take my life and I'd want to rob them of that pleasure